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Beartown

• The book I have been reading is “Beartown” by Swedish author Fredrik Backman.

• The story takes place in a provincial Swedish town called Bjornstad.

• The thing which unites all the people living in the town is hockey.

• Every game of a local youth team becomes the most important event in Bjornstad’s life.

• The young players have real chances to win the championship, which has never happened before.

• This fact just increases already enormous attention to the game among the inhabitants of this town.

• Subsequently, the team won the semifinal and it created an incredible festive atmosphere in Bjornstad.

• Not only did this win make everyone happy, but it also triggered events which have led to a crime committed by the team’s best player.

• That day changed everything: it divided best friends and made local dwellers vent their spite on the victim who put the local star’s career in danger.

• The theme “we can’t protect our children” runs through the whole book.

• In my opinion, it reflects author’s own concerns.

• Howsoever you try to teach and understand your children, they live their own lives and are able to commit acts hardly understandable to their parents.